genderism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A belief that gender is rigid, usually a belief that it is binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person's gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
Uncountable
noun
Belief that one gender is superior; discrimination on the basis of gender. (Compare sexism.)
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.
Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Genderism is the ideology that there are, and should be, only two genders and that all or most aspects of one's gender are inevitably tied to the gender assigned at birth. Genderism reinforces negative attitudes toward gender nonconformity,[…]"
- "He [Keat] points out that attacks on sexism in philosophy are often tacitly genderist, for example in denying the claim that men are more rational than women, one is likely to be accepting the claim that rationality (which is commonly regarded as the male alternative) is superior to its alternative. […] An attack on genderism in philosophy would of course involve a much more radical re-assessment of the history of […]"
- "But what is missing from these lists are the names and deeds of the everyday heros^([sic]), those queer activists who, though suffering from depression, have tackled the homophobia and racism and genderism that are the roots of the blues."
- "Rebecca Stotzer (2008) suggests that people who are transgender are "rarely attacked solely because of their gender identity" but rather are typically targeted because of the intersection of different identities. […] This finding suggests that the intersection of racism and genderism may increase bias cries against transgender people of color."
- "One of the worst [erroneous interpretations of Darwinism] constitutes the fundamental basis for racism, genderism, and other individual superiority-inferiority conceptions."
- "We learn that racism, sexism, genderism, and [each of] the isms feeds on itself, and the “superior” group truly damages their inner characters. The "inferior" group, which also suffers […]"